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Jonathan Oosting The Detroit News Published 7:05 PM EDT Oct 8, 2018 Lansing — Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Schuette on Monday railed against a new health-care themed campaign ad launched by his opponent, arguing it makes false claims and points to a “growing credibility gap” for Democrat Gretchen Whitmer. The ad alleges Schuette thinks insurance companies should “be allowed to deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions," a claim that Bridge Magazine's Truth Squad has dubbed "misleading." As attorney general, Schuette fought to overturn the federal health care law that guaranteed coverage for those patients but has repeatedly said protections for people with pre-existing conditions should continue in any replacement law. Joined at a Lansing press conference by several residents with health care concerns, including a paralyzed woman in a wheel chair, Schuette called the ad a “joke” and said he has … [Read more...] about Schuette attacks Whitmer’s vote cutting insurance rate oversight

Jonathan Oosting The Detroit News Published 12:05 p.m. UTC Jun 21, 2018 Grand Rapids — Democratic candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Shri Thanedar flanked Gretchen Whitmer to the left on policy but shied away from direct attacks against the establishment favorite Wednesday night in the party’s first televised gubernatorial debate. Whitmer, the former state senate minority leader from East Lansing, was the only Democrat in the debate who did not advocate for a single-payer health care system, a potentially expensive program championed by the progressive left and Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who won Michigan’s 2016 presidential primary. “I’m the only one on this stage that’s actually delivered on providing health care in this state,” Whitmer said, referencing her work to negotiate a bipartisan law that expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. “We agree on a lot of things, and getting every person … [Read more...] about Health care separates Dems in gubernatorial debate

Jonathan Oosting Detroit News Lansing Bureau Published 10:01 p.m. UTC Jun 6, 2018 Lansing — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed wants to make Michigan the first state in the nation with its own Medicare-for-all government health insurance system under a proposal he unveiled Wednesday. The former Detroit health department director and trained medical doctor wants to raise taxes on large businesses and individuals to pay for a universal “Michicare” plan he says could produce significant health care savings for families and employers. “This is an opportunity to stand up for health and human rights, to give health care to 600,000 Michiganders who have been locked out of the system," El-Sayed told The Detroit News ahead of a mid-day press conference. The plan would “do away with things like co-pays, deductibles and premiums, which are tools the insurance companies use to extract value out of the health care system,” he said. … [Read more...] about Democrat Abdul El-Sayed proposes universal health care for Michigan

Evergreen Health Cooperative sued the federal government Monday over a program that could force it to make a huge payment to larger insurance companies and compromise the 3-year-old company's future.The lawsuit marks a critical departure for Evergreen CEO Peter Beilenson, a longtime advocate for the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's insurance reform designed to extend health coverage to more Americans.The federal law requires insurers with healthier members to make payments to those with sicker, costlier members.In the lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court, Evergreen says it expects to owe between $18 million and $22 million this year, or about a quarter of its $85 million premium revenue in 2015, under the so-called risk adjustment program.Evergreen alleges in the suit that the method for determining how much companies pay or receive under the program favors older, more well-established companies and puts small firms, like Evergreen, at a disadvantage. The suit … [Read more...] about Evergreen Health Co-op suing federal government over insurance program

(Harry Malt for The Washington Post) Is it just by chance that almost all of the 20 cities and counties on the shortlist for Amazon’s second headquarters can boast access to great art museums? You can’t help noticing the correlation. Of the 238 cities and counties that applied for consideration, plenty have the population (over a million), the pleasant environs and the basic infrastructure Amazon seeks. But if they don’t also have an exceptional art museum — and preferably more than one — those cities didn’t make the cut. Amazon (whose founder and chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos, owns The Washington Post) says it expects to hire as many as 50,000 full-time employees over the next 10 to 15 years for its second headquarters, with an average annual total compensation exceeding $100,000. (Average pay at Amazon’s warehouses is a different story.) How do art museums come into it? Unemployment has been low for a while now. Demand for workers is … [Read more...] about Great museums seem to matter for the locations on the shortlist for Amazon’s HQ2